Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-07

Mrs. Henry Spencer, who has been quite i'll for the past few days, is improving.
 D. B. Beach leaves for New York Monday, where he will take position with New York firm.
 Woodbridge.
 WOODBRIDGE, March 6.-The Society of Earnest Workers will hold 'tMother Goose Carnival in the parlors of the church on Wednesday evening, March 9. Music in at tendance Singing and tableaux. Coffee, cake and ice cream served. Admission ten cents. If stormy it will be held the next fair evening. All are cordially invited and 8 pleasant time may be expected.
 Mr. Winifred Marks has built barn and enlarged and improved the house on the farm formerly occupied by James Sherman.
 A dance was held at the hall on last We'd nesday evening.
 oxford.
 OXFORD, March 5.-Your Oxford readers of the JOURNAL AND COURIER are greatly pleased over the legal result of your effort to demonstrate that ''This is free country" They greatly regret, however, that you were subjected to such great annoyance and to so much expense to demonstrate it. But the JOURNAL AND COURIER, easily standing at the head of the New Haven press, has abundant occasion to be serene in spite of even boycotters or boycotts. E. l.. Hoadley, of Seymour, is now piliug
  dred cords of four-foot wood cut by his order on land near Oxford center. P. s. Sanford is cording up one knows not how many cords of wood in the region of his store. A considerable number of railroad ties are freighted from here to Seymour. Several loads of thick-sawed stuff are taken from the Lum sawmill daily by Hoadley teams to Seymour. A large business would to-day assist the "Little Derby" projected past Sey- mour through this place to Southferd. North Haven. THE MAN WAVED HIS HAT, BUT THE LoCoNo- TIVE KNOCKED THE HAY SLED TO PIECES ALL THE SAME.
 NORTH HAVEN March 6.-Some men who own salt meadows are obliged to draw the hay across the railroad track where the ap- breaches are anything but level. On We'd nesday Mir. John Hickok, in the employ of meadow owner, was crossing the track with large load of hay about 8 mile below Quin- nipiac station when the sled stuck fast on the track and resisted all the efforts of three men to move it. As it was nearly time for an press train to psss the horses were unhitched from the sled and a man of the party went toward the cars and tried by waving his hat to notify the engineer of an accident, did not succeed and the train struck the sled and sent things flying some forty or fifty feet. Pieces of the engine were left on the track. The LrAlu WaS SlOppeO IO 1AfcstlSdlo uoAoSoS, then moved on.
 Mrs. Roswell Crockett is quite sick ,attend- ed by Dr. Swift, of Hamden. Mrs. Munson Bassett is taking care of Mrs. Frank Mansfield and her remaining twin baby.
 Mir. Jared Bassett, who fell and injured his hip some months since, seems to be improv- ing in health very slowly, but it is not thought he will ever walk agatn. The largest audience since the Centennial concert assembled in Memorial Hall last evening to listen to Lieutenant Long and witness the battle of Gettysburg. The yer dict is that better opinion of the battle and other war scenes was gained by the exercises than could be obtained in any other way. A drum corps of young men from Wal lingford furnished martial music and they also won the hearts and praise of large number of people present. The next on the list is the entertainment given by the public schools next Monday evening.
 MT. Le Hane does not commence his work | at Wallingford until June. Not this week as I was stated.
 MT. Brocksieper's new steam sawmin is e1- pected to be in operation in few days. Logs are now being rolled in there pretty fast. Gardiner Thorpe has accepted position with Bradstreet's Mercantile agency in New Haven and is to commence his duties next Monday.